Views & News

Interviews, podcasts, research from inside and outside Youth Catalytics: you’ll find it all here. We welcome your opinions, conjectures, rejoinders, and anything else you have say. We’re a community of professionals who care about young people, and want the information and insights expressed here to be as vital and vibrant as they are.

 

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Melanie Wilson Melanie Wilson

YouthMapping: the power of a fact-finding experience

How about training young people to investigate issues and resources in their communities? How about teaching them how to collect and fact-check information, provide background and context, summarize it all for their peers — and do it in a way guaranteed to make adults take note?

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Melanie Wilson Melanie Wilson

#MeToo, and what it probably won’t mean for poor girls

About 10 years ago, we started hearing from our direct-service colleagues that the girls in their programs were facing new pressures to look and act in sexual ways. While children in state care had always been at higher risk of sexual abuse than other kids, with all the attending behavioral fallout, it seemed like something new was happening. Something in the culture, perhaps.

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Jennifer A. Smith Jennifer A. Smith

Making room in your program for volunteers

These stories shifted my focus from “What does our agency need that volunteers can give us?” to “What do I sit in my office just wishing someone would do for my clients once in a while?”

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